I’m writing this post to introduce another series of posts I intend to embark upon, to coexist alongside my “abstractions,” “design patterns,” and “home automation” posts. I’m going to post these under the category “Practical Math” and think of the series as being called “Practical Math for Programmers,” the title of this post notwithstanding. (Speaking…
Quick and Dirty? “We’re really busy right now–just copy that customer form and do a few find and replaces. I know it’s not a great approach, but we don’t have time to build the new form from scratch.” Ever heard that one? Ever said it? Once, twice, dozens, or hundreds of times? This has the…
A while back, I made a post about using string.Join() to construct SQL where clauses from collections of individual clauses. In that post, I alluded to playing with a “more sophisticated” where clause builder. I did just that here and there and decided to post the results to github. You can find at here if…
Have you ever seen code that looked like the snippet here? public class Menagerie { private List _animals = new List(); public void AddAnimal(Animal animal) { _animals.Add(animal); } public void MakeNoise() { foreach (var animal in _animals) { if (animal is Cat) ((Cat)animal).Meow(); else if (animal is Dog) ((Dog)animal).Bark(); } } } You probably have…
C++ Inline Reaching back into my C++ days, a concept exists called “inline”. “Suggesting inline” is a concept where you tell the C++ compiler that you want to dispense with function call overhead and slam the code in question right into the code stream of the caller. (It’s a matter of suggesting because the compiler…
